It has been a while since I've last mentored at a StartupWeekend (last time was at StartupWeekend Cologne in January), so I was honoured that I got invited not just by StartupWeekend Cork, but also by the team of StartupWeekend Stuttgart to be a mentor in the same weekend.… …
And the winner is… StartupBus Europe 2014
This year's StartupBus Europe edition is over again, something you've been working for with an amazing team for months, happens in a couple of days and is over again before you know it. I want to give a big shout out to the entire team throughout Europe who made… …
Doing Customer Development (and stop wasting your time)
Everybody can come up with the next BIG idea. The next big thing which is going to revolutionise the world! You see a problem, and you think to yourself, that whatever it is you are going to build, will solve that problem for a lot of people. And is,… …
Fixing Homebrew for OS X 10.10 Yosemite
Update: Homebrew was fixed while Yosemite was in beta. If you are running into problems after upgrading to Yosemite you can easily fix Homebrew by doing a git pull from /usr/local or do a brew update before updating your system to Yosemite. In other words, it is no longer… …
Open letter to Mike McCue: Dear Flipboard, please give me an API
Dear Mike McCue, Sometime last year you opened up Flipboard Magazines to the world. Up until today, there are a lot of users, and even companies like Levi's and Cisco, starting to make use of this "easy to use" publication platform. Trying to make an attempt at creating a… …
Creating legends within 72 hours while on a bus
Last week was the re-birth of a StartupBus starting from Amsterdam. It took my fellow organisers (cheers to Mike, Steven, Magnus and Vidar) and myself a lot of time and effort in these last couple of months but it was all worth it. Elias the founder of StartupBus describes organising… …
Creativity starts from a belief
Last year I entered the StartupBus Europe competition, starting in Copenhagen and driving to Paris, forming a company in just over 72 hours. It was one of the best learning experiences I had in my life. Let me explain why: StartupBus is changing the entrepreneurial world, from the moment… …